Tan calf binding with green title plate, gilt decoration, banding and title on the spine.

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This edition of Leçons et modèles de poésie française; or, Choice selections from the best French poets, with annotations by C.J. Delille is not only nicely bound but has a timeless and easy to read text. 

Jacques Delille (22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. He barely survived the slaughter of the French Revolution and lived for some years outside France, including three years in England. The poems on abstract themes that he published after his return were less well received.